Farlowe had a few other succesful records in the UK -- on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records label -- and apparently the Stones were quite fond of him. I suspect if he had been a little more conventionally attractive, he'd have been a bigger star, but who knows? In any case, he's had a very long and productive career in the company of a variety of artists, including most recently Van Morrison.
I should add that you can hear the same backing track, only with vocal by Mick Jagger, on the Rolling Stones' unfairly maligned 1975 outtakes album Metamorphosis.
Nice vocal, although I prefer the Stones' final cut. Because of his success as a publicist and manager, Andrew Oldham fancied himself the next Phil Spector as well. Unchecked by the Mick n Keith, his orchestrations are rather heavy-handed at times. That is not Charlie Watts on drums and it's too bad. I agree that 'Metamorphosis' is a good collection- if there was any malign feeling about it, it likely reflected the feeling that it was a cash-in for Abkco.
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ReplyDeleteAlways loved this song although I, too, prefer the Stones version. Yeah, Metamorphosis gets a bit of a bum rap. So, since it’s Stones cover week, let me contribute a selection of my own. You probably know this one, but I can not risk that you don’t.
Behold! The 5th Dimension singing perhaps one of the greatest Stones songs of all time: Moonlight Mile...
https://youtu.be/awTyFcSwGZ4
(I’ll see myself out now)
RichD
I have always loved Metamorphosis. As I recall, it competed in the charts with Made In the Shade.
ReplyDeleteLiked Chris's version of the Leon Russell song Hummingbird on Jimmy Page's solo album Outrider.
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